A belated lovey post

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photobook, present, valentines day

I’m having a huge clear out of my phone (does anyone else get continually told by apple that they don’t have enough space?!? Pfft-annoying) 

Anyway…. this has forced me to get a bit organised, clear out old whatsapp chats, upload stuff to Pinterest and do stupidly late non relevant posts on here…. sorry for that!! Haha!!! 

So a group of pics that fall into this category are pics from our Valentine’s Day together! I don’t want to just delete them so here I am, in May, doing a verrrrryyyyyy belated valentines post… haha 

Basically I will share a few picks I snapped from our morning where I gifted maxwell a few pressies…. I made him a photobox album of our engagement pics and brought him a 3yr Q&A book too!! 

I’ll let the pictures do the talking….. 

Cute huh?!?! 

If you’ve never used photobox before fear not!! It was my first time too and I found it really easy!! There are always discount codes flying round too so that helps the cost be really affordable!! I opted for an A4 lay flat design and loved it!!!! 

And how gorgeousdo our pics from Hayley look?!? Can’t wait for the wedding and all the wonderful pics we’ll get then too!! I’ll probably make another one then… I was so impressed with the quality!! If you want to have a play click here and have fun!!! 

A Homemade Christmas

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Christmas, craft, felt toy, handmade, homemade, monster, present, soft toy, toy

As I’ve been a wee bit poor recently, I thought I would make some presents this year instead, and I have REALLY enjoyed it! I have made some silver earrings for my Ma, a patchwork quilt & some cufflinks for my man, some bunny bags for my two god daughters and a monster toy called Harry Munster.

I thought I would share with you how I made Mr Harry Munster….

 

I decided to make my god-daughter’s little brother a plush toy… something a little bit different for me.. I choose to work with felt as it’s strong and doesn’t fray! perfect for toys for little ones. The first thing I did was create a little face using different colours and buttons. I wanted to keep it bright, fun and a little bit quirky!!I then decided on the shape I wanted the toy to be. It’s always best to not to too many little details or fiddly sharp edges….

 

If you then cut out the shape, you’ve got yourself a paper stencil for the toy, you want to pin it to the a folded piece of felt.

Once it’s pinned to the felt, you can use a pencil or a chalk to outline it, you wanna leave o.5cm gap all the way round for a seam allowance. 

 

Once you’ve got it all cut out you wann figure out if there is a right and wrong side of the material.

You then want to sew the ‘face’ onto one fo the right sides of the body. Pin it in place first to make sure it doesn’t move around. If you want you can stuff the face to make it a little more 3D, I just left mine flat though. 

 

The next thing you wanna do it place the right sides of the fabric together, pin them together and then start a straight stitch all the way round the edge. Make sure you leave a small gap (around 5cm) Also as a handy tip, use the guide lines to make sure you stay the right distance from the edge or use the lines to the right of the needle… these will help you stay on track!

Once it’s all stitched up, you can turn the toy inside out or the right way round! It’s a little fiddly popping out the arms and any other small bits, but take your time, wiggle the seams and use your finger or a pencil etc to help poke them out! One all sorted you can start stuffing the toy using wadding or something similar! make sure you start with the arms/legs then do the body!As a finishing touch I sewed on a belly button/button and also stitched ‘Harry Munster’ on the back! These little toys are such fun to make and really easy! Have a go and I would love to see anything you come up with!

 

A present from the heart <3

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birthday, couple, couples, crafting, i love you, love, making, present, relationship scrapbook

So…. it was the boy’s birthday in November, the first one we celebrated together…

Our second date was one my birthday so I wanted to do something special for him. I decided to take him on holiday. It was supposed to be a surprise, so I’d brought him a few holiday clothing items but as clothes, for boys are a bit boring, I wanted to make some for him aswell, something I know he would cherish and love…

For our first non-date we went for a walk and I took my 2 old SLR’s, along our beach walk and we chatted nervously and got to know each other, I gave this curly-haired man a photography lesson and taught him how to use these beautiful old camera’s.

Over the next 5 non-dates, to our first official date, the camera’s always seemed to be there, kind of following the journey, along with ticket stubs and flyers of places we’d been. The plan was obvious, I would make my beautiful boy a book, a scrapbook of us if you like…. the journey so far…

I really enjoyed making the book, I printed off all the pictures, hunted for things I could include and dug out my typewriter….

I had also discovered that I loved this man and wanted to tell him. I  decided that if he hadn’t said it before, I would tell him on his birthday, and i thought i could document this stage of our story in the book…. so on the last page I’d done things to I said, how for his birthday, she’d taken him to cyprus for a week of sun-kissed fun, but how she had saved the best present for last….. but because she was shy, she had to write it instead…. he then had to open up a little envelope where I’d written ‘i love you’ on.

CUTE i know! haha… emotion kinda took over and I got all teary, I’ve got the most perfect picture of the moment just after i love you’s were said, but i think I’ll keep that one just for us two, and for the book of course!

He adored the present and of course the story and the i love you’s… I would definitely recommend more people doing this, we now have a lovely scrap-book of us that we can add to over the years… I don’t think this is a common thing, or at least people don’t write about it or document it on the web, so here goes… a few sneaky peeks inside and a couple of the birthday boy as he got to that last page….